Re: Fax Software
I've actually found efax to be more robust than sendfax (from mgetty-fax) but I've
never tried to use hylafax. There was some configuration involved with efax but efax
can handle Class 1 operation which sendfax can't (at least not the version I used).
This may or may not be an issue for you.
Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, David Frye wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that
> > they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the
> > easiest and most reliable to use?
>
> I've been pretty happy with hylafax, although the version in slink doesn't
> seem to initialize my modem (USR Sportster) properly so I went back to the
> hamm version. I could never get efax to work. I couldn't get faxgetty to
> run and still work with data, so I got a second modem (as far as I can
> tell, this is more a modem problem than a software problem although it did
> work in Win95--ugh).
>
> Bob
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